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We spent many laborious hours on the project.laborious = difficult
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"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. (source)laboriously = with difficulty
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Everything took an eternity, became a laborious detail.† (source)laborious = difficult
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I tossed in my sheets and stared at the ceiling, dismayed at the thought of six laborious, interminable nights of yelda until I saw her again.† (source)
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It breathed slowly, laboriously, making a wet sound with each breath.† (source)laboriously = with difficulty
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Beside my elbow is the stack of paper I've been adding to so laboriously, month after month.† (source)
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This laborious exercise enabled him to read the day's newspapers online.† (source)laborious = difficult
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He butchered the carcass under a thick cloud of flies and mosquitoes, boiled the organs into a stew, and then laboriously excavated a burrow in the face of the rocky stream bank directly below the bus, in which he tried to cure, by smoking, the immense slabs of purple flesh.† (source)laboriously = with difficulty
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She read and took notes incessantly, mastering facts with painful laboriousness, but never flinching from her self-imposed task.† (source)laboriousness = difficultystandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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The terrific locomotive, as beautiful as any ship, breathed with unlaborious fatigue at the rail-head.† (source)unlaborious = not difficultstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unlaborious means not and reverses the meaning of laborious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I know, but I saved the most laborious one for last.† (source)laborious = difficult
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Harry was left staring down at Moody, who placed his staff on the bottommost stair and started to climb laboriously toward him, a dull clunk on every other step.† (source)laboriously = with difficulty
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She wondered if he did not understand the laboriousness of the smile with which she listened to Kennicott's account of the "good one he had on Carrie," that marital, coyly improper, ten-times-told tale of how she had forgotten to attend to Hugh because she was "all het up pounding the box"—which may be translated as "eagerly playing the piano."† (source)laboriousness = difficulty
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Stimulated by the silent monitor within, and by a no less touching and appealing monitor without — to whom I will briefly refer as Miss W. — I entered on a not unlaborious task of clandestine investigation, protracted — now, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, over a period exceeding twelve calendar months.† (source)unlaborious = not difficult
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Outside, Tyrion swallowed a lungful of the cold morning air and began his laborious descent of the steep stone steps that corkscrewed around the exterior of the library tower.† (source)laborious = difficult
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Laboriously I began to climb and scramble for it—over and around the chunks of concrete—but I had not got very far when I realized that I was going to have to go the other way.† (source)Laboriously = with difficulty
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